Amusement device



Oct. 23, 1934. A A 1,977,609

AMUSEMENT DEVICE Original Filed April 1952 3 Shets-Sheet l Oct. 23,1934.

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1,977,609 I AMUSEMENT-DEVICE Andrew Bollak, Homer City, Pa.

' Refiled for abandoned application Serial Nor 605,764, April 16, 1932.This application August 14, 1933, Serial No. 685,029

" 4 Claims. (01. 4640) This invention relates to amusement devices downin Fig. 2 to expose the amusement device. and more particularly to suchdevices in which a A phonograph of a conventional type adapted fordancing movement is accompanied by music. fiat discrecords and woundwith a crank is shown This case has been filed in place of Serial No. atthe extreme right. To the left of the phono- 5 605,764, filed April 16,1932, which became abangraph and connected with the phonograph by andoned. aperture is a housing 14 which contains the op- The inventionconsists in combining a motorerating mechanism of the amusement device.operated phonograph with a mechanism that op- The phonograph isdesignated by the numeral 15. erates one or more dancing figuressynchronous- Within the housing 14 is a base 17 access to which 10. ly,and in other structure related to a small portis had by a door 19mounted on the hinges 20. 6 able amusement device. This door is providedwith a slot adapted to re- The objects of the invention, among others,are: ceive the eye 23 mounted on the end wall of the First, to provide asmall portable amusement dehousing 14 and a pivoted hook 24 mounted onthe vice producing music and showing dancing figinner wall and adaptedto interlock with the eye.

15. ures; second, to provide such a device in which Mounted on thehousing 14 is a housing 26 hav- 7.0,. the dancing figures are operatedby the phonoing a roof 27 and two similar glass windows 28, graph motor;third, to provide a protective housthis housing being mounted on thehinges 39 and ing, mounted on a base, that is easily and quickly adaptedto be turned to the left to expose the broken down and reassembled;fourth, to provide dancing figures 38. Each group of figures 38 rep-201a simple mechanical adjustment by which the resents human dancers inEuropean folk dancing 75 phonograph may be played alone or with thecostumes. Each group is mounted on a flexible dancing figures; fifth, toprovide a small housing base 32 which is rotatably mounted, the one atwith windows to cover the dancing figures and the left being mounted onthe shaft 29 and the through which the dancing figures are visible; oneat the right being mounted on the shaft 30.

:1 and sixth, to provide a low cost, simple, durable, The verticalshafts rotate in apertures in the roof 80 and robust constructionthroughout. 25 of the housing 14 and are pivotally mounted in Referenceis now made to the drawings in which fianged bearings 31 mounted on thebase 17. A Fig. 1 is a front elevation, pulley 33 fast on the shaft 29is adapted to re- Fig. 2 is a similar view with the front cover ceivethe belt 37 which also travels over the pul- .turned down, ley 34 whichis fast on the shaft 30 by means of 85 Fig. 3 is a horizontal section onthe line 3 of the locking pin 35. An idler pulley 36 is also Fig. 2,mounted on the vertical shaft 30. The housing Fig. i is a view similarto that of Fig. 2 but with 14 and the phonograph 15 are connected by athe walls of the housing all turned down and the housing 40, 41 in whicha belt 42 travels, being :.housing for the dancing figures also turneddown, selectively connected at the left with the fixed 90 Fig. 5 is ahorizontal section through the two pulley 34 in which position itoperates both sets P11118575 Shown at the left in a d of dancing figures38, or with the pulley 36 in Fi 6 is a vertical section through theoperatwhich case the figures do not operate. The belt ing Shaft shOWllat the fight in 42 passes through an aperture 44 in the phono- Likenumerals of reference refer to like parts graph Wall and turns with avertical pulley 43 95 througheut the drawings in which housmg 5 mountedon the vertical operating shaft of the is supported on four legs 6,which support the hem graph which obviously is actuated by the base 7 onwhich are hinged by the hinges 11 to glaring of the phonograph matchturn outwardly and downwardly the ram vertical The operation of thedevice is now C1 can To 3 2 5, g g g gz g gigig gf i z ifigg i operatethe dancing figures simultaneously with t the playing of the phonographthe left end of the 12 i rovided with a head 13 meet from the ed e whi iis adapted to fit over and hold togethir belt 42 1S slmply sprfmg OfftheFdIer pulley 36 and the top edges of the vertical walls of thehousing 011 the Pulley 34 Winch turns Wlvh the Pulley 33 $0 50... andwhich also supports hooks 51 adapted to inthat when he phonograph isstarted or stopped 105 terlock with eyes fastened on the vertical walls.anc s fi u es start o p y on s y. In the position of the parts as shownin Fig. 1 I have provided therefore a simple amusement the device isadapted for storage or portability device which produces music anddancing figures with all the parts protected and closed againstsimultaneously at low cost and with the same 55 jdust or dirt. The frontcover 8 has been turned portability as is possessed by a phonograph sono figure eccentrically mounted on said platform,

and means for rotating said platform connected with the actuatingmechanism of a phonograph.

2. An amusement device comprising in combination, a phonograph, arotating platform, said.

platform consisting of a flexible disc,'a dancing figure eccentricallymounted on said platform, said platform being mountedon a verticalshaft,

a pulley on said vertical shaft, and a belt mounted on said pulley andconnected with the actuating mechanism of the phonograph.

. 3. An amusement device comprising in combi- I nation, a phonograph, aplurality of rotating platforms, dancing figures eccentrically mountedthereon, a vertical shaft having a pulley thereon connected with eachplatform, a belt connected with pulleys of said shafts, a pulley,mounted on the vertical operating shaft of the phonograph, and a beltconnected with one of said pulleys and with the pulley mounted on thevertical operating shaft of the phonograph.

4. An amusement device comprising in combination, a phonograph, aplurality of rotating platforms, dancing figures eccentrically mountedthereon, a vertical shaft having a pulley thereon connected with eachplatform, a belt connected with pulleys of said shafts, a pulley mountedon the vertical operating shaft of the phonograph, a belt connected withone of said pulleys and with the pulley-mounted on the verticaloperating shaft of the phonograph, and an idler pulleymountedconcentrically with one of said platform-connected pulleys.

ANDREW BOLLAKL

